New York Police Department investigators deployed an extensive array of high-tech surveillance and investigative tools to identify the alleged vandal, according to documents from the court case provided exclusively to The Intercept.

The report, which covers enforcement actions over a six-month period, highlights the obvious: Corporations are responsible for the vast majority of alleged fraud in the American health care system.

Providing continuing hormone-replacement therapy at “the High-T Department of War,” as Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling it, may prove difficult for the federal government which already has struggled to manage service members’ hormone therapy, The Intercept has found. Read more: interc.pt/4pFXr6T

In a purple congressional district in Michigan, William Lawrence, a founder of the progressive Sunrise Movement, is calling for a moratorium on new data centers and labeling Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide. While Lawrence is making a strong showing in the polls, now the centrists are fighting back.

“Whatever else MAGA says about wars,” says Ackerman, “what it wants is domination. It wants domination not only at home, but abroad.” Listen to the full episode: theintercept.com/2026/07/17/s...

Following months of reporting by The Intercept that found the Pentagon’s official tally of casualties is a gross undercount, which one U.S. government official previously called a “casualty cover-up", the Pentagon belatedly admitted that almost 100 U.S. troops have been injured in the last two weeks

ICE is issuing a new nationwide policy mandating a dress code for field operations. The policy, shared with The Intercept by a DHS whistleblower and confirmed by multiple ICE officers, details a new set of appearance standards aimed at making it easier for the public to recognize ICE officers.

A US official told The Intercept that recent attacks had wounded “far more” personnel than are reflected in the Pentagon’s current casualty count. They did not provide numbers but said “dozens” had received medical attention.

“This is a formula for a forever war,” national security reporter Spencer Ackerman tells The Intercept Briefing. Listen here: theintercept.com/2026/07/17/s...

Google purges reviews of ICE detention facilities and blocks the ability to write new ones, according to newly published research shared with The Intercept.

RFK Jr. is taking up a right-wing push attempting to link the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the US, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to terrorism. The problem? The organization has never received nor solicited federal funding from HHS.

A judge’s order barred ICE from making arrests at Manhattan immigration courts. Last week, ICE arrested people at them anyway. interc.pt/4xQr4G2

The Intercept’s analysis shows that from 2011 to 2020, the per capita rate of women dying by suicide or homicide in the Army was 15 per 100,000. From 2021 to 2024, following the Army’s attempted reforms in the wake of Vanessa Guillén’s killing, the rate increased over 35 percent, to 21 per 100,000.

Research and Pentagon data indicate that rates of domestic and intimate partner violence in the military, particularly in the Army, are higher than the civilian population. Most victims are women, who also make up most of the homicide cases tied to that violence.

But data compiled by The Intercept identified at least seven cases that year in which service members were suspected of killing a spouse or partner in acts of domestic or intimate partner violence — more than double the official count.

Democrats and Republicans in Congress have struck a deal on the KIDS Act, which could pass on the House floor as soon as next week; if enacted, it would fundamentally change the way everyone accesses the internet. At stake is your ability to use many social media platforms anonymously.

If the mythic Overton window shifts to the right, and you obligingly follow suit, it will simply move further toward that extreme, and reward only the tip of the spear.

Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write. The prosecution’s theory was that Sanchez moved zines, which discussed anti-government ideas, to conceal evidence in the case against his wife, Maricela Rueda.

A law enforcement intelligence hub in New Jersey fretted that the growing class divide in the U.S. could drive a wave of lone-wolf attacks on high-flying corporate executives, according to a report obtained by The Intercept.https://interc.pt/4w2PPx8

Jeffries and his ilk were quick to discount Mamdani’s political project as one that could never take root beyond New York City. But as other primary races this cycle have shown us, that’s simply not true.

As results rolled in Tuesday night in NYC, one message was clear: The left isn’t just having a moment — it’s dictating how Democrats play the game of electoral politics. Read more here: interc.pt/4oSGVQw

Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest.

35-year-old asylum-seeker from Belarus has spent nearly a year at Farmville Detention Center, recently bought by CoreCivic. There, he says, he’s experiencing medical neglect as a tumor grows on his arm. Read the full story here: interc.pt/4xJCxaf

Since arrests began stacking up at the protests, at least half of those taken into custody have received calls from federal agents looking for information, according to Benjamin Van Meter, a deputy public defender who represents a number of protesters facing charges.

Detectives with the Newark Police Division of the city’s Department of Public Safety went undercover to infiltrate protests outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Delaney Hall detention facility earlier this month, according to court records obtained by The Intercept. interc.pt/4xKlAge

Police crashed into a man’s van twice on purpose, fired 27 shots at him, and while the vehicle lay on its side, burning, at least eight cops watched as 34-year old Navy veteran John Andrew Jenuwine bled out and died inside. It turned out police chased the wrong man. interc.pt/3QSa0Pg

Israel asked Meta to censor content about its war against Iran, according to internal documents viewed by The Intercept; records show that Israel petitioned Meta to take down posts expressing support for Iran, opposition to Israel, and depictions of Iranian missile impacts.

SCOOP: The chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect American workers from discrimination, moved to delete the agency’s affirmative action rule that was implemented almost 50 years ago. interc.pt/4vlftNM

In a series of interviews with The Intercept, Amanda Feindt, a U.S. Army major and former whistleblower, described a grueling pattern of obfuscation in which military officials refused to answer questions about her child’s treatment, and claimed not to have the attendant evidence. interc.pt/4uA5ZwA

For weeks, the activist disappeared from all tracking systems. The best Muhammad’s supporters could ascertain by early April was that they had been transferred to a “confidential location.” interc.pt/4ek7IQQ